Journey to the West is not only the story of the arduous journey of Tang Sanzang and his disciples to obtain Buddhist scriptures, but also contains countless profound details about human nature and ...

Is it possible to feel physical pain without suffering? For thousands of years, that question has fueled Buddhist mindfulness practices that combat pain relief by embracing the inevitability of ...

Who are the Upper Ranks? We have the answers here... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Given its status as a shonen anime, it ...

When a South Korean monk performed a Buddhist ritual for a wildly popular K-pop boy band, it was the most unusual ceremony he had ever held. His mission: to guide the souls of the band to peace and ...

A succubus is a demon or supernatural entity, in female form, that appears in dreams to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. According to religious tradition, repeated sexual activity with a ...

Labubu, ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘Demon Slayer’: We humanize these otherworldly creatures because we’re spiritually ambivalent. But in recent Asian pop culture trends, these otherworldly creatures aren’t ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Although the Demon Slayer manga reached its conclusion in 2020, the series’ popularity keeps ...

Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

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Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

In January the most powerful people on earth—every former living president and vice president, foreign dignitaries, billionaires, and career bureaucrats—gathered to welcome Donald Trump’s return to ...

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